The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Special Forces (SF) team have neutralised two bandits at Rafi and Doka communities in Gusau local government area of Zamfara state.
NAF spokesperson Air Commodores Ibikunle Daramola said in a statement on Wednesday that the special forces were deployed to the areas following an information about the bandits gathering in the areas yesterday.
“Upon arrival at the location, the NAF SF Team encountered resistance in the form of heavy gunfire from the bandits. However, the brave SF personnel employed superior tactics to outlast the bandits, who were soon low on ammunition, before engaging and overpowering them,” he said.
“Two bandits were neutralized in the process while others fled with gunshot wounds. Since then, the SF Team has been conducting aggressive patrols in the area, especially the fringes of the forest, to forestall any reprisal attack.”
Daramola said NAF, along with sister Services and other security agencies, would sustain the operations to flush the bandits out of the North-west part of the Country.
